finding the poor in urban areas: the philippines’...
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11 November 2015
Jacel J. Paguio, Assistant Regional Director Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippines
Finding the poor in urban areas:
The Philippines’ experienceNuts and Bolts of SPL systems in Urban Areas:
from Strategy to Delivery
Urban
Situation
in the
Philippines
3 Major Urban
Cities:
-Metro Manila
-Metro Cebu
-Metro Davao
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• 1 in 2 Filipinos live the urban
life (UNICEFs State of the World Children’s
2012 report)
• 21.7 million population from
12 Metro Cities (23% of the 92
million total Philippines
population)by NSCB in 2009
• By 2030, 77% of Filipinos is
projected to be living in urban
areas.
Poverty Incidence Among
Families (2012)
(Estimates %)
Philippines 19.7
Major Cities
Metro Manila 2.4
Metro Cebu 18.9
Metro Davao 26.7
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To establish an objective and transparent targeting system for social protection programs.
GENERAL
OBJECTIVE
National
Household
Targeting
System for
Poverty
Reduction
(NHTSPR)
• Formulate a uniform set of criteria for identifyingpoor families through scientific means.
• To expand promotion and sharing of high qualitydatabase to public and private social protectionstakeholders.
• Reduce leakage or inclusion of non-poor and undercoverage or exclusion of poor from the necessarysocial protection programs and services.
Specific Objectives
Geographical Targeting
1. IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS FOR ASSESSMENT
LISTAHANAN is implemented nationwide in17 regions,80 provinces, 1,491 municipalities 143 cities and 42,028 barangays.
2. IDENTIFICATION OF DATA COLLECTION STRATEGY
a. Rural barangays - SATURATION (all families will be assessed)
b. Urban barangays – SATURATION inpockets of poverty
Finding the Poor in Urban Areas
Step 1.
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HouseholdAssessment
1. Assess all families in all poor areas and thosepockets of poverty through house to houseinterviews using a 4-page questionnaire with46 variables Family Assessment Form (FAFs).
2. Encode all FAFs, run the duplicity checker,and apply the Proxy Means Test Model todetermine income per capita of thehouseholds.
3. Rank the PMT results according to provincialpoverty thresholds.
Step 2.
Finding the Poor in Urban Areas
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Enumerators in areas with reliable internet signal use android tablets for data collection.
Paper and Pencil Approach and Tablet
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PerformanceAssessed
10,909,456 Households in 2009 from:
- 17 regions
- 80 provinces
- 1,491 municipalities/
143 cities
- 42,028 barangays
5,255,118 (48.17%) POOR HHs identified in the
Philippines as per PMT result on
July 1, 2011.
4.3 million
poor familiesIdentified in the LISTAHANAN were accessed to
major social protection programs.
These are:
-Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
(The Philippine Conditional Cast Transfer –CCT)
-Sustainable Livelihood Program
-Health Insurance under PHIC
Selling the Targeting System
Mechanisms
Given the amount of government resources
invested in the Listahanan, there is also a
much need to inform the public on the good
news about it to optimize the use of the
database to aid in the poverty alleviation in
the country.
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Selling the Targeting System
Mechanisms
National and Regional Social Marketing Plan were formulated
leading to behavioral change of the target audience groups:
- National Legislators -Local Government Units
- National Government Agencies -Media Practitioners
- Non-Government Agencies -Development Organizations
- Targeted Families -DSWD staff
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Selling the Targeting System
Mechanisms
In urban setting, marketing the LISTAHANAN is more challenging given the other existing database systems of highly urban cities (HUCs).
The approach instead is highlighting the complementation of all available local database on poor families as basis for planning and targeting.
Additional potential target users of the database are the Business and Corporate sector which also implements support programs on poverty alleviation under the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
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HOMELESS STREET FAMILIES, ITINERANT
FAMILIES AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (IPs)
WERE EXCLUDED IN THE DATABASE AND WERE
LEFT BEHIND!
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- Families residing in streets in
urban & urbanizable areas whose
income or combined household
income cannot afford for housing
facilities.
WHO ARE THE HOMELESS STREET
FAMILIES (HSF) IN URBAN AREAS???
-Families routinely living on the
streets either in the open air
(doorways, sidewalks, pavements,
parks or in makeshift dwelling units
or push carts (“kariton family”).
-Families without
any form of house
structure adhered
to the soil.
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
MODIFIED
CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER
FOR HOMELESS STREET FAMILIES
(MCCT-HSF)
• Target areas are highly urbanized cities andother areas where there is a growing number ofHSF.
• The strategy is CCT but with modifications in terms of processes in targeting, conditionalities, package of benefits, interventions and modes of implementation.
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• REACH OUT OPERATIONS
- Daily and Massive Inter-Agency
Reach out to Individuals/Families at Risk
•TWITTER ACCOUNT: @savestreetkids
•DEPLOYMENT OF STREET FACILITATORS &
OTHER FIELD STAFF
•STRONGER COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
HOW the Homeless Street Families (HSF)
can be INCLUDED???
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• Reach out to HSF
• Household Enumeration using pre-screening tool.
• Name-matching in the NHTS & CCT Database and Housing Alpha List
• Assessment of Eligibility
• Validation of Potential Beneficiaries thru Community Assembly/FGD
MCCT Beneficiary Targeting & Registration
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Family Registration to MCCT
- Use of Registration Form and Oath of Commitment
-Issuance of MCCT Identification cards with the Household ID Number given by the DSWD.
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THE RESULTS
218,401 families are now benefiting from the MCCT-HSF program which is 4.87% of the total Pantawid Pamilyabeneficiaries nationwide.
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ENSURING NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND!!!
